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Michael O. Ball

Michael O. Ball

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., Cornell University


Michael Ball is Professor Emeritus at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He also has a joint appointment within the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) in the Clark School of Engineering and is a member of the Decision, Operations and Information Technologies Department within the Smith School.

Dr. Ball has over 200 scholarly publications, covering a range of subjects including air transportation, revenue management and pricing, supply chain management and system reliability. He is co-director and principal investigator of NEXTOR-III, an 8-university consortium funded by the FAA to carry our research in aviation operations research. Several of his research and consulting projects have led to implementations in industry and government. In the past five years, he has been a member of various expert panels that have given advice to the United Nations, the FAA, the National Academy of Engineering and multiple airport authorities on aviation policies.

Throughout his career, Dr. Ball has been an active member of INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. He has been area editor for both Transportation and Optimization for Operations Research and is now associate editor for the journals, Operations Research and Transportation Science. In 2008, he was president of the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society. In 2004, he was named an INFORMS Fellow.

Dr. Ball received BES and MSE degrees from Johns Hopkins University in 1972 and a PhD in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1977. 

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